@article{Söhnen-Thieme_2019, title={Translating Texts into Art: Specimens from the Jaina Tradition}, volume={21}, url={https://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/1075}, DOI={10.12797/CIS.21.2019.02.07}, abstractNote={<p>This paper explores the ‘crossing of border lines’ between the textual traditions of the Jainas (oral and written) and the corresponding representations in works of art, serving also as a kind of introduction to Jaina art and its idioms for a broader public. It concentrates on three stages of pictorial representation of most eminent Jinas: it touches upon images that are possibly pre-textual (starting with sculptures from Mathurā dating back to the first centuries AD), proceeds to more narrative illustrations found in manuscripts of Bhadrabāhu’s Kalpasūtra, and concludes with a more recent specimen of the depiction of Jinas in miniature painting, as presented in a rather late illuminated version of the Bhūpālastotra, a text praising the 24 Jinas, which shows the efforts made to translate parts of the eulogies into the visual medium.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Cracow Indological Studies}, author={Söhnen-Thieme, Renate}, year={2019}, month={Dec.}, pages={179–205} }